Why Did Massachusetts join the Union?

Question

Why did it join and I need the famous persons or groups discouraging or encouraging the statehood

Well im trying to say WHY did it become a state in the United States

Answer 1

I'm still not following you, but I'll try to answer as best I can. If it's not what you're looking for, let me know.

From the beginning there was no question but that Massachusetts would join the Union. During the late colonial period when Boston protested the taxes from England and had its port closed by the King's soldiers, the other colonies sent cartload after cartload of food and supplies to the besieged city. George Washington of Virginia stated that "The cause of Boston IS the cause of America."

Words like those, and deeds of countless others throughout the colonies coming to Boston's aid forged a bond between Massachusetts and the rest of the colonies that couldn't be broken. There was never any question of Massachusetts going it alone. Nobody ever supported that idea. From the beginning, then, Massachusetts always considered itself in union with the other states.

I don't know if this answers your question. If not let me know.

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As written, your question doesn't make sense. Massachusetts was always in the Union since its founding. Are you perhaps referring to the ratification of the Constitution of 1787? That's a different story altogether. Please specify exactly what you mean, and I'll be pleased to answer you.

Answer 2

Frankly, it is, to this day, hard to understand. The state is populated with left wing liberals who are mavericks even within their own political parties. It was the only state that gave its electoral votes to George McGovern in 1972 which shows how liberal they were and how out of touch they were with reality. Things have not changed there. Witness that they continue to elect the likes of John Kerry and, even worse, Ted Kennedy to the Senate. They may have joined the Union, but they do not help create a union but rather are divisive, tax happy, and outrageous in their politics. I used to live there and was glad to leave. Am I missed?? Not at all!!

Chow!!

Answer 3

Massachusetts led the rebellion against Great Britain and Statehood made practical sense - - - states united by common language & customs - - - here are a few blurbs from assorted sources that may help, you'll find several names, names important bost to the creation of the State and the United States...

http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cismaf/mf4.htm

"""Written by John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Bowdoin"The end of the institution, maintenance and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body-politic, to protect it, and to furnish the individuals who compose it, with the power of enjoying in safety and tranquility their natural rights, and the blessings of life: And whenever these great objects are not obtained, the people have a right to alter the government, and to take measures necessary for their safety, prosperity and happiness. The Body-Politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: It is a social compact, by which the whole people convenants with each Citizen, and each Citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain Laws for the Common good. It is the duty of the people, therefore, in framing a Constitution of Government, to provide for an equitable mode of making laws, as well as for an impartial interpretation, and a faithful execution of them; that every man may, at all times, find his security in them.

"We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the Great Legislator of the Universe, in affording us, in the course of His Providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence or surprize, on entering into an Original, explicit, and Solemn Compact with each other; and of forming a new Constitution of Civil Government, for Ourselves and Posterity, and devoutly imploring His direction in so interesting a design, Do agree upon, ordain and establish, the following Declaration of Rights, and Frame of Government, as the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts"

http://www.masshist.org/welcome/

And it was Shay's Rebellion in Mass that is often cited as being a major reason why The United States was created as cited in this clip--

http://www.answers.com/topic/massachusetts
The Federal period was a time of great population growth and achievements in many fields. Shays' Rebellion (1786) was a result of a post–Revolutionary War recession. Many of the farmers in the Connecticut Valley were in debt and faced foreclosures of their properties. Shays, a Revolutionary War veteran, led an unsuccessful raid on the United States arsenal in Springfield in an attempt to arm the threatened farmers so that they could shut down the courthouses where foreclosures would take place, before the legislature could meet and enact a moratorium on foreclosures. The rebellion and the threat of a mortgage moratorium frightened well-to-do citizens throughout the nation; historians connect this rebellion with the calling of the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, which wrote the second (present) U.S. Constitution, which created a stronger central government and forbids the states from enacting laws impairing the obligations of contracts."


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